Fender for street-railway cars



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J. B. BAILEY. FENDER POR STREET RAILWAY GARS.

No. 519,803. Patented May 15,1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BARNES BAILEY, `OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

FENDER FOR STREET-RAILWAY CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,803, dated May 15, 1894.

Application led July 3, 1893. Serial No. 479,464. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BARNES BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invent ed certain new and useful Improvements in Fenders for Street-Railway Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to fend ers which are principally designed for use in streetrailway cars to prevent injury to persons when accidentally struck by an advancing car.

The object of the invention is to provide a fender to prevent the person or obj ect struck from getting under the car and Awhich will carry the said person or'object along without inflicting any injury.

The invention consists of the novel features and the peculiar construction and combination of the parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and which are shown in the annexed drawings, in whichv Figure l is a side elevation of one end'of a car showing the application of my inven- Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one end of a car showing the invention in position. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of a car showing a different application of the invention whereby provision is had for preventing the corners of the fender from projecting beyond the rails of the track when making curves. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the car shown in Fig. 3, one end being broken away to show the means for operating the fender.

The car A may be of any desired form of construction usually employed for street railway service and is designed to have the fender applied thereto at either end to prevent a person or object getting under the car from t the advancing end.

The fender is composed of a frame and a fabric or netting stretched over the said frame and supportedthereby. The side bars B composing the frame have their forward t, portion b slightly curved and located a short distance above the bed of the track, and have their innerends curved upward and pivotally and the said side bars B. A rod D passes' through the coil spring C and is attached at its upper end to the car and `has its lower end passing through o r otherwise engaging with the side bars B and is threaded at its lower end on which is mounted a nut c. By a proper adjustment of the nut c the side bars can be adjusted so as to regulate the distanceof the front end above the track bed. It will be understood that a spring C and a rod D will be provided for each side o f the fender. A

To prevent the front end of the fender from engaging with the track bedvso as to work injury, a roller E is provided and located on the under side of the said ,fender near the front end and is adapted to relieve friction between the fender Vand the bed should the j olting of the ear cause the said fender to engage with the said track bed. The frame composing the' fender is covered by any suitable material, either netting or fabric F whichever may be found suitable for the purpose.

When the fenderis in an operative position it will be supported at its ends by the spring C which will permit it to vibrate vertically to adapt itself to the jolting of the car. In the event of a person or object being struck the fender will act as a scoop and lift the said person or object and carry it along until the car can be stopped without working any injury. A link G will be attached to the side bars and strengthened bya cross bar through which and the closed end of the link the rods D will work, being guided in its movements thereby.

To prevent the corners of the fender from projecting beyond the rail when the car is passing around curves the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4 has been devised, the essential feature of which is provision for turning the fender laterally around a vertical axis and have the same under the control of the gripman or mo'tor man. The means consists of a cross bar -H connecting the upper rear end of the side bars B and pivoted midway of its ends IOO to the bottom of the car by a suitable king bolt in any of the usual Ways. This cross bar is provided at its end with sleeves h which are adapted to travel upon curved bars I, the latter being secured at their ends to the car bottom and curved on the arc of a circle whose center coincides with the pivotal axis about which the fender or cross bar H turns. The side bars B are pivotally attached to the sleeves h to admit of the fender having a vertical movement to adapt itself to the jo'lting of the car. In order that the yielding connection between the fender and the car may adapt itself tothe tilting movement of the fender curved rods J are provided and the rods D have sleeves at their upper ends which are adapted to travel or I'nove on the said curved rods J. These rods J are curved on the arc of a circle whose center corresponds with the axis about which the fender turns. The lever K is pivoted near one end to the car bottom and has its outer end slotted to receive a pin 7c on the cross bar H by means of which a connection between the said lever and fender is obtained. The inner ends of the lever K are connected by link lml with a lever L under the control of the gripman or motor man. It will be understood that the ends of the car will be similarly equipped and that the fender at opposite ends will be connected to the lever L in a corresponding manner. In passing around a curve the m0- tor man or gripman operates the lever L so as to turn the fenders to adapt them to the curve.

so that their ends or corners will not project beyond the'rails of the track.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car, a fender comprising side bars .which are connected with the car by shackles so as to move both vertically and laterally, springs between the fender and car for supporting the front portion of the said fender, and a lever under control of the grip or motor man to be operated at will to shift the said fender laterally, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a car of an end fender having a cross bar which is pivotally connected midway of its ends to the car, and curved bars at the sides of the car to engage with and support the ends of the said cross bar, substantially as described for the purpose set forth.

3. In a car, the combination of a fender having a cross bar which is pivotally connected midway of its ends to the car, curved bars at the sides of the car to support the ends of the said cross bar, yielding connections attached at their lower ends to the fender between the ends of the latter and curved rods attached to the car and supporting the upper ends of the said yielding connections, the said curved rods and bars having a common center which coincides with the vertical 'axis about which the fender turns, substantially as set forth.

4. In a car having fenders at each end adapted to turn about a vertical axis, a vertical lever under the control of the motor man or gripman, short levers near the ends of the car attached at their outer ends to the fender, and having their inner vends connected with the said vertical lever, substantially as set forth.

" In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OI-IN BARNES BAILEY.

Witnesses:

V. B. HILLYARD, FRANK H. BURNS, Jr. 

